Conan was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something. He turned back and called through the wire fence to Professor Agasa, "Professor, you stay here—if Ran and Sonoko come back on their own, someone needs to tell them where everyone went so they don't miss us."
Professor Agasa looked down at his beer belly and let out a heavy sigh of relief. He had been worrying about how to climb over the wire fence too. Hearing this, he hurriedly nodded.
"No problem! You all be careful too. Let's meet here in an hour. If we still haven't found them by then, I'll ask the inn staff to help search the mountain."
After speaking with him, Conan turned and noticed Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko's expression. He paused slightly. "What's wrong?"
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko gazed longingly in the direction Haibara Ai had gone and reluctantly said, "How about we walk a little faster and catch up to Ha... catch up to Brother Jiang Xia and the others?"
Conan froze. "Catch up to Jiang Xia? Aren't you scared of him?"
After a moment of confusion, the Fake Elementary School Student suddenly understood everything. He looked speechlessly at the classmate who, not long ago, had seemed to have a crush on Yoshida Ayumi. ...For the sake of your so-called love, you're not even afraid of Jiang Xia anymore... In a sense, you really are a brave man.
But right now, bunching together to search for people was simply too inefficient.
Thinking Like This, Conan ruthlessly pointed in the other direction. "Split up and make this quick. Although black bears rarely appear in Chiba Prefecture, this side of the wire fence definitely isn't as safe as the other—people gathering wild food wandering into the Hunting Zone and getting shot by hunters who mistake them for animals is